Fuck micro stakes

haha, tilt reg'd after blowing my roll at NL50 HU, and binked my first one. This is actually the first rush tourney i've ever even played, and the first MTT i've played in like, months or even years maybe. I kinda liked it.

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Got bored with the grind so started playing NL50 HU. What was I thinking, every time I move up or switch games I always get doomswitched. Nothing like getting outkicked with trips in 3bet pots, drawing dead with 2nd nut flush draw, and jamming river for value with straights vs droolers who catch runner runner flush. $250 roll down to $30.

Obviously not really interested in playing at this point. Took me 30k hands and 30 hrs of play to get there. Probably gonna tilt it off at rush in a second. Oh well hopefully next tax return will give me enough so I can sit at some NL200 tables and focus.

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Whew. Back in the green, or black or whatever you call it. Guess I should have really taken that 3 day poker suspension I put myself on earlier.

Pro's: I made adjustments
Con's: I'm not sure what they are

Thats right, I am playing differently, I know it, but I cant quite put my finger on it. It's like my mood was simply different, more confident for some reason, and it affected my play in unknown ways. The only thing I can really say is that I'm playing more cautiously. My stats are still pretty aggressive I think. In fact, I think they're rather handsome, other than my W$SD%, obviously that has to increase. I've been focusing on HUD stats a little more closely in game, namely the positions certain players do certain things from. Maybe I was just getting variance'd to death earlier. I dont really know how to tell the difference.

Anyway, I think I'm gonna just avoid thinking about it too much, and just play in a manner that feels right.

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First 10k hands were NL5 rush, at which point I decided to take a shot at NL10 rush, thinking it cant be much different. Boy was I wrong, just a massive nitfest, everyone setmining from ANY position against ANY preflop raise. By the time I started to realize TPGK and cbets werent gonna cut it, I had already spewed several buyins. Then suddenly I forgot how to play NL5 rush. Now I'm just spiraling out of control snap tilting when someone mindonks the flop into me, or calls my 5xBB open with 24s. Even when I win at showdown im just like "what the fuck, you called with that? *raaaaaaage*" I've completely forgotten how to play. Now I'm just blindly stacking off with PP's b/c I see someone get it in 1 time with KJo, being a station vs 8/2 nits with hands like JJ when it's obvious I'm beat on a 24895 board. Just bad bad baaaaaaad play. I just have so little respect for the class of human beings I'm up against that it affects my play. Because I dislike them as people, I play back at them, to punish them and make them feel bad for losing.

I think the problem is that at these stakes I keep looking at poker as just a game and not money. I mean I cant be proud of $15 sessions, since thats meaningless to me. I quite honestly have to have real money on the line for me to give a fuck. It's a discipline thing, and I lack it. Even worse, I just dont care to beat micro stakes, any more than at NL200 reg would go back and try to beat it. I mean why bother? If you can play higher then play higher.

I once read that everyone, regardless of occupation, always reaches their level of incompetency. In poker this means your highest limit before you lose. You dont play NL2 if you can crush it for 20bb/100, you play NL200 for 2bb/100. Im not sure what my ceiling is b/c I've never applied myself. Decisions decisions decisions.....

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With rakeback I decided to take an early shot at NL10 rush.



By the 56th hand I had 3 sets busted. Was supposed to be a 2 BI shot, but 56 hands is like 56 seconds of play. Oh well I managed to pull the plug back at my original starting bankroll. Probably take another 10k hands to get it back, or 3 days of play. Not too bad really. Is it really so much to ask not to get completely ass fucked by the site when taking a damn shot? Jesus.

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WAIT NO IM NOT!!''



Had just finished minimizing app's before I saw the FTP rush screen open, and figured why not squeeze out a couple of BI's right before sleep. Boooooooooo.. frickin sets vs sets, KK vs AA, 3 barreling fish who call me down with AK high on 22736 boards. It's all good though, gettin in some nice volume.

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Took some leftover rakeback and starting playing micro CAP games on FTP to limit my risk of ruin. The funny thing is I found it to be one of the most relaxing ways to play poker, short of getting high (k2o is progressively perking my interest in this). As a loose aggressive player I tend to see a lot of bad beats just from playing so many pots, at least at small stakes games. I feel I'm pretty good at hand reading, although not so great at playing postflop, such as when to value bet and when to not. My sessions usually result in winning lots of small-medium pots, and then losing one huge one to set me all the way back. The beauty of these micro cap games is that fish are still playing them like normal poker, none of that SS strategy you see at higher cap games. This is great because I can get reasonable value from all my 60/40 hands the way I should, and win pot after pot after pot. When that suckout comes around the corner the most I can ever lose is 30BB's. Fuck you variance, how ya gonna get me now? Even if I lost 5 hands in a row I'd probably just end breakeven. If I lose 5 hands in an uncapped game I'm probably in the deep red. Sure I miss out on value, but only from hands I'm likely to make 2% of the time anyway. For all you regs im sure that 2% makes up for all the losses in between. If you lose 180BB's over 400 hands but win 200BB in one glorious moment then you're ahead. Well problem for me is I dont play long enough to reach those pivotal moments. I quite enjoy battling players one at a time through leisurely play until im satisfied and choose to quit. There's also some sick sick fish at the high stakes cap games who just like the thought of playing 5/10, so it doesnt hurt to get used to it and craft my own theories for optimal play as I get there.

Ultimately though, it's simply +EV for me as a person to play these. It really doesnt bother me at all to lose AJs aipf to K9s for 30BB's as it would for 100 which happens quite often. I wish it didnt bother me at regular NL either, but thats another lesson I have yet to learn.

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Yeah thats right, I got colluded against in an online game of team fortress. lol. They introduced this dueling system whereby you can challenge other people to a duel in-game, and whoever kills the other the most wins. You get this wearable badge with a track record of your progress that everyone can see. Of course being the good player than I am I accept any and all duels, and only challenge opponents at the top of the scoreboard.

So some random player insta-challenges me as soon as I join the game which I thought was weird, maybe he knew me or something. I accept, and start pwning his ass 2-0, but noticed it was pretty damn difficult to accomplish. Then he starts getting kills on me, and im like "fuck this guy is pretty good... *respect*". Then I run up on him again and all the sudden he's in uber mode which makes him invincible. I haul ass and survive, find him a minute later, and he ubers again. Then it dawns on me, this punk mother fucker has a pocket medic following him around. Thats why it was so damn hard to kill him the first 2 times. As I continue to seek him out, there's his little bitch boyfriend medic by his side keeping him alive time and time again. By the time I realized I was being set up he had overtaken my lead 3-2.

The match ended and I lost my perfect 15-0 record. Then what do I behold? He snap challenges someone else, someone who was like 8th on the board, a random player like a pyro or something, totally worthless. This fucking cuntbag is running around the server issuing duels against people and then stacking a medic against them to inflate his shitty little dueling record. No fucking class. I think I'm just gonna delete my badge and try to start over.

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Just trying to play a little rush at the office, tethering my cellphone to my pc to hide my tracks, and I cant get more than 5 fucking hands in before some cunt starts crying that her PDF isnt printing, or that the print quality is faded, or that the projector wont turn on, or that the scanner isnt scanning, or someone just wants to talk about how cool wifi is and that the shingles on their goddamn roof reduce cellphone reception. FUCK ALL YOU BITCHES!!!1

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The following is Matt Damon's first hand we see vs KGB if it were played online. Just seeing it all laid out like this had me in tears for a solid 5 minutes.

$25/50 NLHE 500BB min
4 players

UTG folds
Hero raises to $500
SB folds
BB calls $450

Flop: (Pot $1,025)



BB checks
Hero bets $2,000
BB calls $2,000

Turn: (Pot $5,025)



BB checks
Hero checks

River: (Pot $5,025)



BB bets $15,000
Hero requests TIME
Hero raises to $48,000 and is ALL IN
BB calls, slow rolls, shows
Hero mucks
BB wins $101,025

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